Let me tell you, there are SO many recipes out there it is mind boggling! Where to start?!

In my search I kept seeing a common theme with the recipes…many of them had coffee in the ingredients. I had always bypassed those recipes because I do not like coffee flavoured anything, except for a cup of coffee. I really, really do not like coffee in my desserts.

But I was curious why coffee was even in chocolate cake recipes…so I googled it.

Apparently, coffee does not add coffee flavour, but instead it boosts the flavour of the cocoa.

And it does. This cake has no coffee flavour at all. Just a really good, rich chocolate flavour.

This cake was so rich, so moist, so chocolatey and so easy to make.

Honestly, it really was no harder to make than opening a box of cake mix. Truly.

When prepping your pans, you can grease them and dust them with flour…or instead of flour use cocoa powder so that way you won’t see the powder from the white flour on your cake.

Another option for prepping the pans is to use parchment or wax paper to line the bottom of the pans…this is my preferred method (as in the picture below). My cakes always come out easily with this method.

@Natasha d Thanks Natasha! The cake plate came from my mom who found it years ago while treasure hunting with my Grandma and uncle! Isn’t it fabulous!! It’s so big that I can’t get it into the fridge, but I just leave my cakes on the counter because they don’t last too long around here, hee hee! Jo-Anna

Just made this cake tonight, and it. is. amazing! I had wanted a go-to chocolate cake recipe, and this one is for sure it. The cake is perfectly moist, and the icing is the right consistency making it easy to frost the cake.

Oh, and you are right… you don’t taste the coffee at all, but it sure does make the chocolate stand out.

This is seriously the best chocolate icing and my whole family agrees I have yet to attempt to make the cake but I’m sure it’s going to be just as delicious as the icing. I’ve tried a few recipe’s for chocolate icing but this one is the perfect combination of flavor and sweetness – love it!

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